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HPVcomp101
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USA
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Posted - 11/04/2011 : 14:06:16

Hi all,

This is my first HPVC, well, first any ASME competition. I believe most of the rules and such were available on the ASME HPVC page earlier this week but for some reason the HPVC page appears to be down. We really need the rules especially after reading this article;

http://www.asme.org/kb/newsletters/me-today/me-today---november-2011-issue/the-tradition-of-asme-hpvc-develops-socially-minde

In the fifth paragraph you will see there needs to be at least one female team member to "help promote diversity and encourage women to join a male dominated competition."

While I agree this is a good idea, until reading this article our group had no idea this requirement existed so we didn't try and promote it to the few women there are in our program. So, senior design groups were formed at the beginning of the school year and as you can imagine, the women too began to work on their senior design projects in their groups.

Our school is small and there simply aren't any more woman engineers that could join our team. So now we have to scrub all the work that we've done and find a new project simply because each group must have a women on it? Does the woman have to be an engineer? If not that opens a lot of doors. Where is a list of all these rules?

Victor Ragusila
recumbent enthusiast

Canada
337 Posts

Posted - 11/04/2011 : 17:51:25

Hello HPVcomp101

The woman must be registered with ASME as a student, taking a full time engineering degree. The rules are on the ASME page http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Events/Contests/HPV/29994.pdfwhich works (as of 5 min ago)

They do state that you can ask other teams if they have any female riders that are not racing for their team. The penalty for not having women riders is 15min during the endurance race (which is 2.5h long) plus a lot of points lost in the sprints. You can double check the rules, make sure i remember them right.

We only found our female team member in january, during our first year. We try to recruit as many women engineers as possible, and given that UofT is a rather big faculty, it is quite easy.

Did you try advertising and doing recruitment runs for all the students? You can always recruit lower year engineers in your team, if all the graduating class is busy on their own projects...

Victor

Edited by - Victor Ragusila on 11/04/2011 17:52:30

W Hilgenberg
recumbent enthusiast

USA
251 Posts

Posted - 11/04/2011 : 21:35:14

Also, there is the possibility that you could get a volunteer female rider from another team to ride for you once you are at competition.

HPVcomp101
Starting Member

USA
3 Posts

Posted - 11/04/2011 : 22:01:22

The rules bit was just a browser problem. So I found the section of interest;

Driver Requirement Exceptions
All events except the design event require that teams have at least one complete crew of each gender. Significant penalties are incurred for teams that do not meet this requirement, as described in the rules for each event. An exception to the eligibility rule may be granted to allow drivers to compete for a school other than that in which they are enrolled, as described below. No other exceptions will be allowed.

So the whole design event can be done with our current team, that is important to know. To fulfill the rest we need only coerce a girl to come down and race with us in late April, which shouldn't be very hard considering how cool the competition is. This is great news, thank you for the help Victor.

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